Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I gots to know. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Hopkinson Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:22 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Studio fashion That's because of that little twinkie light and baby size diffuser just above the camera;-) More seriously, not designed for flattering frame filling portrait coverage. Suitable for event or group shots of course, especially where you can't control the environment. I know what you're thinking... did he fire six flashes or only five? A man's got to know his limitations ;-) ;-) *If you want to take more interesting pictures, stand in front of more interesting stuff* -- Joe McNally Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 12 April 2013 11:13, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > I had to take some mugshots the other night and took a Canon 85mm lens > I hadn't had a chance to try out. Light was a bounced Canon strobe > with the Gary Fong diffuser. I thought well, f/2.8 ought to be OK - how wrong. > Fortunately, Alien Skin has a glamor filter. I had never noticed how > many thousands of little facial hairs a woman has, or how you can see > tiny fissures in the makeup. I'm pretty sure I would have been killed or worse > if I had printed them "as is". I am by no means a portrait photographer - > sometimes if the subject has a really bad zit I will get rid of it, > but these required some heavy lifting. > > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Geoff Hopkinson > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:28 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Studio fashion > > Hi Mark. Thanks for looking and commenting. This is not intended to be > natural portraiture of course. More aspiring to magazine cover. Those > are retouched down to individual pores as I'm sure that you know. > Courtney's skin is excellent in fact, though skin texture is a routine > part of my developing in any case.. > > > *If you want to take more interesting pictures, stand in front of more > interesting stuff* -- Joe McNally > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 12 April 2013 02:43, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > I agree with George that portraiture has taken a big turn for the > > NATURAL in this day and age of Facebook and iPhones. > > I do notice on Hoppys page this is the most un natural shot on it. > > Many of them have a lot of life and spontaneity. This shot to me > > appears to be an experiment in face fuzz technology. Wow! A huge > > mistake as far as I go. But you still have the original file. > > If this gal really did have really bad skin I'd pull back not > > shooting a very tight head shot of her and do a head and shoulders. Waist up even. > > I've called those head shots over the decades and the checks didn't > > bounce and clients came back for more. > > And just individually take off a few of the more obvious blemishes > > on her face or some very subtle smoothing of some scarring if there > > really was any. > > My own personal rule in doing ton of head shots for models, singers, > > actors you name it... Insurance guys is to just pull back. Don't to > > a very tight headshot they are seldom necessary. When I used on > > cameras diffusion those shots are a literal wash out as well as > > methophical. I just cant shot those shots to anybody they just seem > > like they were not done by a commercial photography but a portrait > > guy at a shopping mall. And ruined a lot of otherwise nice shoots as > > the diffusion was on the lens and there was no way of undoing it. A > > color problem I'd be able to fix in Photoshop. But hits is lost and > > just plain tacky looking > information. > > Now a days its not done with glass filters on the lens so you still > > have the original sharp file with all information intact. > > > > The other day I was a looking at a page of opera singers and what > > would ten years ago had been a page of rather stiff heavily > > retouched stilled controlled shots were much more natural. Natural light. > > Outdoors even. Not quite sitting at a Starbucks but close. > > We get great shots of ourselves with our Iphones for our facebook or > > whatever or our friends do of us. I'd hate to have to compete with > > that now. > > I did a headshot of a magic guy a year or more ago and I did it on a > > park bench on Riverside Drive. A very successful shoot. > > > > When you give them a waist up shot as a head shot other people will > > sometimes just take the head out and put that in print. But it > > appears very small. The size of a finger print half the time. So > > retouched perfection was never needed. > > > > > > On 4/10/13 11:35 PM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Apr 9, 2013, at 7:01 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > > > > > >> First look from a new shoot at home with a new model today. > > >> M9 &Summilux 50 ASPH > > >> Sorry Ted I used 3 twinkie lights! > > >> > > >> <http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/149597285> > > > > > > this pose seems too unnatural for me. > > > might work if there were another figure (or even part of a figure) > > > which > > she > > > seems to be interacting with. > > > > > > the "current look" > > > which I'm seeing in the publications coming to the twenty > > > somethings in my household seem to striving for "natural" > > > even when a surreal sort of natural. > > > including such as: > > > <http://www.freepeople.com/> > > > < > > http://www.elle.com/news/fashion-accessories/luv-aj-baublebar-collab > > or > > ation?c > > > lick=news> > > > vogue > > > harpers bazaar > > > etc. > > > > > > definitely enjoying your sharing these exercises. > > > > > > Regards, > > > George Lottermoser > > > george at imagist.com > > > http://www.imagist.com > > > http://www.imagist.com/blog > > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > > > information > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mark William Rabiner > > Photography > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. 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